FIRST JAPAN - TURKEY WORKSHOP ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
on Ductility and Strength Concepts in Reinforced Concrete Structures and Microzonation for Geotechnical Hazards
March 26-29, 1997, Istanbul
OBJECTIVES
The First Japan-Turkey Workshop on Earthquake Engineering held in Istanbul was dedicated to the memories of late Professors Dr.Hajime Umemura and Dr.Keizaburo Kubo who stayed for extended periods of time in Turkey and made significant contributions in the initial development of earthquake engineering in Turkey and in the World.
The recent earthquakes have clearly shown the importance of ductility and strength concepts in reinforced concrete structures and microzonation for geotechnical hazards in damage distribution. We believed that it would be very befitting to adopt these two topics as the themes of this workshop.
The selected topics for the workshop were the recent theoretical or experimental research findings related to :
It was envisaged that this workshop would be another opportunity for discussing the recent developments related to earthquakes and earthquake engineering with the participation of scientists and engineers. Our goal is to extend this undertaking by embracing every body working in these fields in Turkey, Caucasian and Central Asian Countries, Balkans, Middle East, Europe and Japan into a workshop series, conceived internationally and planned to be held regularly in the future. The Second Japan -Turkey Workshop is already planned to take place in February 1998 and the first announcement has been distributed. Related information is given in the section of Forthcoming Events.
During the workshop two discussion sessions were conducted separately among invited scientists devoted to the selected themes of ;
LIST OF PRESENTATIONS
T.OKADA "Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting of Buildings"
A.MARCELLINI “State-of-the-Art of Seismic Hazard of Italy”
U.ERSOY and G.ÖZCEBE “Moment-Curvature Relationship of Confined Concrete”
M.ERDİK
“Earthquake Hazard Assessment for Near Fault Regions”A.ÇAKIROĞLU and F.KARADOĞAN
“Plastic Hinge Capacities, Curvature and Structural Ductilities for RC Structures”A.RUTENBERG and M. DE STEFANO “The Force Reduction Factor and Seismic Stability of Code-Designed Yielding Asymmetric Structures”
I.TOWHATA “Geotechnical Aspects of 1995 Kobe Earthquake and Liquefaction Damages”
F.KARADOĞAN, E.YÜKSEL and A.İLKİ
"Deformability Limits and Ductility of RC Bare Frames"S.TEZCAN and L.TERİ
“Shear Wave Propagation and Liquefaction in Layered Soils”T.Crespalani and M.Maugeri “Evaluation of Seismic Damageability of Buildings Including Geotechnical Hazard”
S.IGARASHI, “Characteristics of Destructive Near-Focal Ground Motions”
M.ÜZÜMERİ
"Use and Abuse of Ductility Concept"F.VINALE “In situ and Laboratory Experimental Techniques Suited to Assess Soil Properties Relevant to Seismic Microzonation”
P.GÜLKAN and M.SÖZEN “A Displacement Based Procedure for Determination of Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings”
K.TALAGANOV "Liquefaction Analyses Based on Stress-Strain Characteristics of Sands"
A.TENTO “ Site Effect Evaluation Considering Soil Parameter Uncertainties”
L.TASHKOV "Shaking Table Test of 1/11 Scale Model, as Base for Evaluation of Seismic Stability of Gohran Bank in Alma Ata, Kazakhistan - Comparative Study"
A.İLKİ, P.ÖZDEMİR an
d T.FUKUTA "Complete Stress-Strain Behavior of Confined Concrete under Compression"H.BODUROĞLU, P.ÖZDEMİR, P.ZAHİRTAR
"An Experimental Study on Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints"A.ANSAL and R.İYİSAN
“Microtremor Studies of Damage Distribution in Dinar”D.PETROVSKI “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Effects on Design Earthquake Ground Motion Characteristics”
Ü.ALDEMİR, M.BAKİOĞLU and K.ÇIĞIZOĞLU
"Prediction of Near-Future Earthquake Excitations”T.MARUYAMA, H.GÜLER, M.NURLU and E.ÇORUH “Introduction of the ongoing Turkish-Japanese Project in Ankara-Installation of a New Strong Motion Network System Having a Function of Real-time Estimates of Earthquake Disasters”
N.BAYÜLKE, E.İNAN, N.KOÇ and Z.ÇOLAKOĞLU
“ Earthquake Strong Ground Network of Turkey”
The proceedings of the First Japan-Turkey Workshop are printed as two volumes. The first volume is on "Ductility and Strength Concepts in Reinforced Concrete Structures" and the second volume is on "Microzonation for Geotechnical Hazards". Each volume contains the related papers presented in the Workshop. Those interested can order each volume separately or together from :
Turkish Earthquake Foundation
Istanbul Technical University
Civil Engineering Faculty
Maslak 80626, Istanbul, Turkey
Fax: (90) 212 285 6656
The price for each volume is $25 including postage and handling.